On the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Reservation

December 1998

Read from buttom up

Update on FFJ civil case.
December 1998

Defendants, Steve & Alice Hadden, Donald Carlson & Rose Edwards
have objected to defendants being dismissed from this case. They want the
plaintiffs to try and prove their allegations against them. The judge was
heard saying he has never had a defendant object to being dismissed before.
But Steve & Alice Hadden, Donald Carlson told the court that they want
their day in court. That they are tired of these people making accusation
against them and when it comes time to have them prove it they back out.
(Because there is no proof, it is all lies)

The attorney for the plaintiffs told the court the reason for him and his
clients being in court was for the money to be made in a settlement. And
the plaintiffs feel that the defendants they want to dismiss from the case
don't have enough assets for them to keep suing them. It was pointed out
that the plaintiffs knew this from the beginning and that this law suit
was just for harassment.

In the beginning of the trial the judge accepted oral motions in this case
and now he has thrown them out, telling us we would NOW have to make written
motions and that the previous motions are invalid. And so far the judge
hasn't made any decisions on any of the motions presented in court.